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Mickykarim:
IF THE VP REPORT IS TRUE. THIS VP, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo MUST BE A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT.

I would be most gladdened for his FAILURE at the presidential primaries and the fact that he is out of contention to govern Nigeria.

INCREDIBLE TO FIND OUT THAT THIS PROFESSOR OF LAW WOULD RATHER JETTISON BRILLIANCE ON THE ALTER OF RELIGION.

Any Nigerian still talking and basking in the euphoria of RELIGION sentiment at this time and age must be a very BACKWARD human and Nigerian.

AT THIS MOMENT OF OUR HISTORY AND NATIONAL LIFE. M E R I T SHOULD BE THE WATCH WORD, NOT SOME FORM OF RELIOIN ZEALOTRY.

Backward looking people should give way for the progress and advancement of this great nation.

Aidejay:
lol. Oga na oyinbo you dey speak. In Nigeria worse had been happened. This is not the First time it has happened like this and it won't be the last sadly.

seunmsg:
It’s better to wait and hear from Machina before jumping to conclusion. He might have agreed to step down. Remember, everybody has a price.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria(PFN) has vowed to work against any party that presents a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Its National President Bishop Wale Oke threatened that Pentecostal Christians will vote massively against such party in 2023.

Speaking after the National Executive Council(NEC) meeting in Lagos, Oke said PFN is against Muslim-Muslim ticket because ” it is against the principles of fairness, balance, equity and justice.”

According to him: “Muslim-Muslim ticket means over 54 percent of the population will be marginalised and shut out. If the party doesn’t listen to us, then they will meet up at the polls.”

He informed pentecostal churches across the nation have picked Sunday June 26 as PVC day to mobilise members to register for their Permanent Voter Cards(PVCs).

He said members will be asked to show their PVCs in all churches to gain access and partake in Holy Communion.

According to him, the idea is to mobilise those who don’t have PVCs to register towards delivering “block Christian votes against any party that presents the Muslim-Muslim ticket.”

He said Pentecostal Christians will also intercede for Nigeria on June 26 because ” prayer remains our biggest weapon for God to rescue the nation.”

Oke stated PFN leaders will meet after June 26 to take a definite position on how Christians should vote in 2023.

He however stated the body will engage all the political parties with a view to hearing their programmes and manifestos for possible support ahead of 2023.

Sergio101:
Mynd44.

A fellow is peddling fake News here.

A former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Osun, Mr Kolapo Alimi, on Wednesday, defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Alimi, one of staunch the supporters of the Minister of Interior and former governor of the state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, announced his defection at the PDP secretariat in Osogbo.

Recall that Alimi, a lawyer, served as a two-term commissioner during Aregbesola’s administration as governor of the state.

He was also a staunch member of The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus within the chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), backed by Aregbesola.

Alimi, who was received by the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, Caretaker Chairman of the party, Dr Akintunde Akindele and other PDP members, said that he left APC because of what he called marginalisation.

Although he said that Aregbesola could not leave APC because of his stake in it, the former commissioner, however, stated that he decided to dump the party because he could no longer withstand the maltreatment allegedly being meted out to him and others.

“We cried out to so many times without any solution.

“You know Aregbesola himself is a bigwig in APC. He cannot leave the party, but to some of us who can no longer withstand the heat that the state government is turning on us, we have to move out,” he said.

Alimi, however, appealed to the people of the state to come out en masse to vote for Adeleke in the July 16 governorship election.

In his remarks, Adeleke said Alimi’s defection to PDP would boost the chances of the party in the election.


The governorship candidate expressed confidence that he would win the election under a free and fair atmosphere.

“I want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the electoral bill into law,” he said, stressing that this would prevent rigging during elections.

“I believe that the people of Osun will defend their votes during the governorship election,” he said.

Daum:
Stop quoting fake results
Which country is Muslim 55% and christian 44%. You better call down

Kyase:
I told him this before, Garfield is too emotional, I remember when the rumour of Lawan as the consensus candidate came out, the next thing he typed was, "then we divide this country " , he should learn to accept defeat, that's how we grow

gaskiyamagana:
If he picked Muslim as running mate nothing will happen.
South South and South East are mainly Christians with 5% vote. South West is 50 - 50 Muslim - Christian. North Central 40% to 60% Christians to Muslims. North East is 30% to 70% Christians to Muslims and North West is 15% to 85% Christians to Muslims.
Your Jesus that failed Osinbajo will fail all of your plot again against Tinubu.

Kyase:
Gardfield1 the undemocratic element come hear
With this I'm voting Tinubu

Safyqueen:
And you think the north too are sleeping and they are not collecting their own PVC.

The same you will change mouth that day if Atiku defeated Tinubu squarely that Buhari rig the election for his Fulani brother.

Election is about wining and democracy is about number. If you don't know the north is even under-reported as regard population.
By the time the christains wake them up with this kind of semantics and all of them votes with reference to christains islamaphobic tendencies, no christain will ever win presidency again in this country because the number is not there.

No political party has succeeded in governing Ekiti State for two full terms in quick succession in the political history of the state. Since the state was carved out of the old Ondo State in October 1996 by Gen. Sani Abacha five governorship polls have taken place with no political party ever succeeding in winning the election back to back. This has become a herculean task as attempts by ruling parties in the past to maintain a stranglehold on the state have always proved abortive, with the opposition parties truncating the dream. So, power has been oscillating between the parties, thus preventing an unbroken two terms of eight years.

Unlike other states in the federation, Ekiti is regarded as a complex, sophisticated, and politically conscious state where power has rotated between the two major political parties since 1999. Ekiti people are always interested in national and local politics as a result of their level of education and exposure. So, a preponderance of the electorates is not always associated with long-term love or affection for political parties, rather they vote for personalities and are guided by emerging realities.

The lack of continuity syndrome dates back to the 2003 governorship poll when the current Minister of Trade, and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo of the defunct Alliance for Democracy failed to win his re-election bid. He was humiliated at the poll by the maverick former Governor Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) who was backed by then President Olusegun Obasanjo. Aside from Ekiti, Obasanjo’s PDP swept the polls in five out of the six states in the Southwest geo-political zone.

Fayose did not achieve much during his stay in the hilltop Government House because of internal rife within the PDP, which resulted in his impeachment and that of his deputy, Senator Biodun Olujimi on October 16, 2006.

The political intrigues that culminated in the impeachment resulted in the removal of the then State Chief Judge, Justice Jide Aladejana (rtd) who was sidelined by the Ekiti State House of Assembly under the Speakership of Friday Aderemi to pave the way for the impeachments. The impeachment imbroglio led to a situation in which Fayose, Olujimi and the Speaker, Aderemi simultaneously laid claim to the governor’s seat.

The development propelled Obasanjo to declare a state of emergency there on October 19, 2006, and impose retired Gen. Tunji Olurin as a Sole Administrator for six months, during which period he presided over the 2007 governorship in the state.

The poll was keenly contested between Segun Oni of the PDP and the current Governor Kayode Fayemi of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). At the end of the poll, the Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC) declared Oni the winner. But, Fayemi went to the election tribunal to challenge the results of the poll over alleged irregularities.

In August 2008, the tribunal confirmed Oni, as the winner of the governorship poll to the chagrin of Fayemi. Dissatisfied with the judgment, the ACN candidate went to the Appeal Court which in February 2009, nullified Oni’s victory and ordered a re-run within 90 days in 10 out of the 16 local government areas.
INEC again declared that Oni won the re-run election conducted. Again, Fayemi approached the tribunal for the second time but, unfortunately, his petition was dismissed. He proceeded to the Court of Appeal, which nullified Oni’s victory and declared him the winner a few months before the expiration of the former’s tenure. The legal gymnastics made Ekiti join the league of states in the federation with a separate date for governorship poll; the outcome of the case ensured that the date of governorship elections in Ekiti is different from that of 28 other states where it takes place during the regular four-year election cycle known as the general election.

Dramatically, Fayose staged a comeback in 2014 and bestrode the state’s political firmament like a colossus. He got the PDP ticket with the support of his former deputy, Senator Biodun Olujimi who helped to persuade the then President Goodluck Jonathan and the national leadership of the party to consider Fayose‘s return to Ekiti as governor.

In the June 21 governorship poll, Fayose disgracefully dethroned Fayemi who was seeking renewal of his mandate through the instrumentality of the federal might with a record-breaking of 16-0, which implies that he won the polls in all the 16 council areas.

Similarly, Fayemi resurrected against all odds and secured the APC ticket for the July 14, 2018 governorship poll. Fayemi who was then the Minister of Mines and Steel Development joined the race a few weeks before the party’s primary and altered the political matrix to the consternation of many people who had tipped Oni for the ticket. At the poll, Fayemi defeated the PDP candidate and Fayose’s deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola by a narrow margin.

The foregoing shows how political power has been oscillating between the APC and PDP. Will the ruling APC break the age-long continuity jinx in this week’s election? Will Governor Fayemi bequeath on Ekiti State a successor from the progressive fold? Will power rotation continue? These are the questions in the minds of the people of Ekiti, as the state goes to poll this Saturday.

No fewer than 16 political parties would be participating in the election. The candidates and parties are Biodun Oyebanji (APC); Segun Oni, Social Democratic Party (SDP); Bisi Kolawole, (PDP); Wole Oluyede, the African Democratic Congress (ADC); and Olufemi Obidoyin, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Others are Reuben Famuyibo, the Accord Party; Debo Ajayi, the Young Progressives Party (YPP); Kemi Elebute-Halle, the Action Democratic Party (ADP); Moses Olajide, the African Action Congress (AAC), Peter Adegbenro, the Allied Peoples Movement (APM); Modupe Olatawura, the All People’s Party (APP); Daramola Roland, the Labour Party (LP) and Tope Iyaniwura, the National Rescue Movement (NRM).

Also in the race are Oladosu Fatomilola, the New Nigeria People’s Party, Olaniyi Agboola, the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and Kolade Akinyemi, the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).

Before now, the election was believed to be a straight fight between the candidate of the APC and that of the PDP. But, the emergence of Oni on the platform of the SDP, following his exit from the PDP, has changed the political calculation in the state. Now, the consensus is that the election would be a three-horse race involving the APC, the PDP and the SDP.

The candidates of the three parties, Oyebanji, Kolawole and Oni, have dominated the political space in the last three months and the parties have the highest number of supporters when compared to the other 13 parties. The sequence of political events suggests that the trio are not leaving anything to chance in their quest to form the next government after the expiration of Governor Fayemi’s tenure on October 16 this year.

Currently, the three political parties are back in the trenches once again with the APC struggling to maintain a stranglehold on the wheels of governance, while both the PDP and the SDP are battle-ready to take over the rein of governance.

So, going into the governorship election, Oyebanji would be attempting to break a long-standing jinx if he wins the election, just as Oni would be attempting to break another jinx by winning the election as a third force; a feat never achieved in Ekiti’s checkered political history. The PDP too would be attempting to upstage the APC and sustain the power rotation syndrome in its favour.

While the ruling APC is leaving no stone unturned in ensuring it cracks the hard nut of continuity by ensuring the party’s flag bearer succeeds Fayemi, the opposition PDP is highly confident about producing the next governor to maintain the status quo of power rotation. The SDP, which prides itself as the third force with large followers is giving the impression that it will alter the status quo by winning the election.

Although many believe that the SDP will spring a surprise in the Ekiti, the APC and the PDP are quick to say that the third force in elections in elections in the country has always been jokers and that the forthcoming governorship would not be an exception.

While many believe Governor Fayemi’s performance on the saddle is not enough to earn APC victory, some feel the PDP has not done enough in the last three and half years when power slipped off its hand to convince the people of its readiness to offer them better governance. Others argue that the state is too sophisticated to be allowed to be governed by Oni, who will clock 68 years by September this year.

Given this, the questions on the lips of many are how prepared are the three leading political parties for the election and what is their political health?

As far as the APC is concerned, there is no vacancy in the government house. Its Publicity Secretary, Segun Dipe exuded confidence that the ruling party would win the election with a wide margin based on the achievements of the Governor Fayemi-led APC administration.

He said the ruling party and its standard-bearer were unbeatable since the Ekiti people have tested the APC and are ready to entrust it with another four years mandate. The APC spokesman dismissed insinuations in some quarters that the poll would be keenly contested by the APC, the PDP and the SDP.

Dipe said: “It is not a keen contest. The APC will win with a reasonable margin. It is not going to be keen at all. The PDP is fake, and Ekiti people have realised that and rejected it already. We know the fake projects that the PDP did during its administration, roads that were worn out within six months. The SDP is about noise, blackmail and propaganda. No structure and no backbone. There is a difference between ‘we have done this, we are doing this and we are going to do this’.

“The SDP thinks that by de-marketing the APC, they can market themselves. They (SDP) are not focused on any strategy to win the election, but on a strategy to bring down the winner. The PDP is the one that the SDP is contending with; they are struggling for the structure of the PDP and not to win.”

The APC spokesman, who said the PDP and the SDP were not preparing for the election per se, added: “The APC is conscious of the fact that some people are working towards petitions and litigations, not towards winning. They are just looking for landmines to capitalise on. Over 2,000 projects have been done and inaugurated; Oni never inaugurated any project. The PDP did fake projects. Despite the paucity of funds, we endeavoured to ensure that people’s needs are met and salaries are paid regularly.”

The PDP believes that the governorship poll would be a walkover. It expressed confidence that its candidate, Kolawole, will win the poll due to its acceptability by people, large membership and the fact the governing APC has failed. The spokesman for the Bisi Kolawole Campaign Organisation, Lere Olayinka said: “The SDP is not in this race. We (PDP) are going to win. All the indices are there. You can see the failure of the party in government, the APC, everywhere.

“You can see insecurity; you can see decaying infrastructure, non-payment of salaries through not paying deductions. The government owes about eight months’ deductions. The indicators are there that the people have rejected the APC at the state and the federal level.

“The people are with us; they want to go back to a government that they can feel; they want a situation whereby they can see their governor and they can discuss with their governor. Unlike a governor who in a month spends only two days in Ekiti and the remaining in Abuja. People are tired of that kind of situation. The PDP has remained the predominant party in Ekiti State.

“The strength of the PDP as a party is in the people. The strength of the PDP is in what we have done in the past; the strength is in the record of our achievements. Our party has the record of employing people, but the APC government has the record of sacking workers. You cannot drive on the roads in many areas in Ekiti State without being kidnapped for ransom. That never happened when the PDP was there.”

Describing the SDP as a joker, Olayinka said: “The contest is between the PDP and APC. I don’t see the SDP making any appreciable impact in this election. From experience, a third force has never worked in Ekiti. The SDP members know they cannot make any impact; they are even saying that they are out to spoil the chances of the PDP. The APC is the party we are contesting with.”

But, the SDP has dismissed the position espoused by the APC and PDP with a wave of the hand, saying its candidate, Oni towers above the candidates of the two parties. It believes that nothing can stop it from dislodging the APC from the government house during this week’s election.

The Director-General of the Oni Campaign Organisation, Ambassador Dare Bejide said the forthcoming governorship poll in Ekiti “is not about the party this time, but it is about the individual involved”. He added: “The SDP will win the election with a very clear margin if it is fair and credible. The people have tested the PDP, the APC and Segun Oni as a person. They know Segun Oni is credible. They will vote for Segun Oni.

“The contest is between the SDP and the APC; the PDP is out completely in this race. As far as we are concerned, the PDP will be a distant third; we are going to win and the APC will come second. The PDP is not doing well; most of its members have crossed to our side. They are trooping in every day and we are happy about that.”

Bejide, who described the SDP as the new bride in Ekiti State, said: “We are moving very fast; people are embracing us; they see us as the most credible alternative to the present administration. Even though the SDP is a new party, we have gone round and the massive support has jolted the two other parties.”

While speaking on the strength of the SDP, the director-general said: “Segun Oni is an institution; he was governor and did so well in terms of infrastructural development, salary payment, the welfare of the civil servants and all spheres; he paid arrears of pensions and gratuities.

“All these are the things that are still operating in the mind of the people. It is difficult for the people to forget what Segun Oni did when he was in government. If you compare his tenure with that of the APC, you will see that the difference is very clear. We are not only going to win, but we will also win very well. What they are saying is that Segun Oni may not have money. Who told them Segun Oni will not have money?

“They are banking on rigging, saying they will rig us out; I don’t know how they will do that because you can only rig when you are popular. But they are unpopular. The people of Ekiti are our strength. We believe the election is about people, we have already taken the message to the people. We have gone round the state; we have gone to court because many people are friends of the party. We have friends from the APC and we have friends from the PDP, who are now members of the party.”

Penguin2:


You said “his mouth doesn’t like him”

Wike destroyed a lot of bridges and goodwill he enjoyed in first tenure with his mouth and arrogance. I guess he started packing a lot of dollars and lost his mind thinking money can buy all things.

Meanwhile, I’m glad you visited Maria’s page so that you can feel the undiluted and unfiltered pulse of the Ebonyi and Igbo people.

The things I tell you here are not out of emotions but out of reality on ground.

It appears the ball is in the court of presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in respect of the decision to choose his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.

But in making the choice, he has factor in the position of the governing party, which is to take into considerations all the indices that would promote fairness and unity of the country in his choice of a running mate.

This is more so when stakeholders of the party have blatantly rejected the idea of a Muslim/Muslim ticket, insisting that in the spirit of fairness, the party must pick a Christian from the North as Tinubu’s running mate.

Political parties in the country have less than 72 hours to submit names of the presidential candidate and their running mates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, gave the hint of the decision of a running mate lying with Tinubu while briefing State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari over his planned state visit to commission some projects executed by his administration.

On insinuations that the APC was planning to fly a Muslim/Muslim ticket, he said there is no where in the constitution that says religion is a factor or characteristics of who becomes the president or who becomes the running mate.

He said, “But we are looking for a united Nigeria where governance will be the issue, where a president would be adjudged by his capacity to deliver democratic dividends, develop Nigeria to look like other parts of the Western world where democracy is working.

“I don’t want us to reduce governance in Nigeria to certain things that will encourage divisiveness. Rather, we should be a united Nigeria, be our brother’s keepers, have a president of Nigeria that will be a president representing every tribe, every religion and every denomination. And when we get there, we will cross the bridge.

“The decision also to choose a running mate does not reside with any of us the governors. It is the presidential candidate that will look at the local characteristics and every factors, political and apolitical, that would make him win his election and take the decision. So it’s not a decision that we will sit here and take for the candidate.”

On whether he would like to see a governor as a running mate to Tinubu, Uzodimma said, “Why not? Have you forgotten he (Tinubu) was a governor for eight years? If he chooses a governor so be it, we will support it. For now, we are no longer talking about who becomes running mate and who is not running mate. I have told you whose decision it is.

“The next thing as party leaders now and opinion leaders is for us to rise up, mobilize and get members of our party to commit to a successful election by 2023 so that our president who is leaving will also be handing over to our own president of APC. That is our preoccupation now; how to win the election.”

On how the South Easterners can put their house in order to be able to achieve what they want in future, especially as he said the constitution is not against the issue of single faith ticket, Uzodimma said, “I did not say it is not about single faith ticket.

“I said these are internal characteristics that the decision maker may consider in the process of taking his decision. The decision whether to choose Mr A or Mr B to be a running mate to a candidate is entirely that of the candidate.

“You started by saying the governors of the South East are complaining of not having the opportunity of being a running mate anymore. But that is not the sole ambition of the South East, talkless of the governors to be a running mate. And in the business of presidential primaries, there is no election for a vice presidential candidate. The business there is just to elect a candidate.

“In that ballot paper there is no room for delegates to vote for who will be your running mate. So that explains why it is not a decision for the people. It is a decision for the candidate. The first thing to do is to let the candidate (choose) now that a candidate has emerged.

He further explained that the candidate would have to consider some ideas and issues like how to create a spread. Spread is very important to be able to attract votes.

Uzodimma stated: “So, if I were the candidate, what would inform my decision is an action that would enable me to get the kind of votes I’m looking for because the ultimate goal is to win the election.

“So maybe I’ll start from the nomination, ethnicity or followership. In this business of democracy I think numbers are what is very important. And there are certain things as a nation we should not bring to public discussion, those things that are capable of creating divisiveness against national unity should not be encouraged. It does not mean that I will not remember that I come from a place but I must also be cautious and careful about how to use where I come from in taking national decisions. That is very important.

“When I appeared on Channels in the morning of the convention, I told you that one of the conventions governing our polity in Nigeria is power shift. That power comes to the North and goes to the south. When power came to the south, in 1999, we ceeded it to South West and all of us voted as Nigerians.

“The next time power came to the South, it went to South South and all of us voted as Nigerians. We expected that now that power came back to the South, it will go to the South East but this is not a decision that a geopolitical zone alone can make.

“No geopolitical zone can become a president without the participation of other political zones. So when you don’t get the cooperation, you begin to find out why and work towards getting the cooperation next time, because it has to be a united country for you to become a president.

“We’re not talking about the president of South East, president of the South South or president of South West, we are talking of the president of Nigeria. For a Southerner to become a president he needs to vote for the North; for a northerner to become the president he needs the vote from the South.

“In our constitution, in two-thirds of the states you must have at least minimum of 25 per cent votes registered in those states. So we’ll look at the guidelines. We’ll look at the rules. Our country is a rule-driven country and the grand norm is the constitution of the country. So we’re working with it.

“All we’re saying is that for equity, for fairness, for justice, there’s certain sentiments to be considered when we’re making national decisions but we don’t think that is enough to disorganize our country. We must move forward”.

Meanwhile, in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has been picked as running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for the 2023 election.

Wike emerged the preferred choice yesterday after a committee voted in his favour at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja.

The committee comprised members of various organs of the party, including governors, lawmakers, and Board of Trustees (BoT) members and former governors.

The committee led by PDP deputy national chairman (North), Umar Damagum, was charged with the responsibility of picking Atiku’s running mate.

LEADERSHIP recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had fixed next Friday, June 17, 2022, as the deadline for political parties to submit the names of their Presidential candidates and running mates.

Wike had contested the position with his Delta and Akwa Ibom State counterparts, Ifeanyi Okowa and Udom Emmanuel, respectively.

However, a source at the meeting, who is a member of the committee disclosed that members of the committee and other party stakeholders settled for Wike after a vote was conducted.

The source added that majority of the committee members voted for Wike, even through Atiku still reserves the right to pick him or not.

It was gathered that the committee will meet with Wike tomorrow today in Abuja.

Another source told LEADERSHIP that a Northern governor had insisted on Wike being Atiku’s running mate because of the political sagacity he showed at the recent primary election of the party.

It was leant that the governor who has been in Abuja spareheaded the campaign for Wike in the face of opposition to the Rivers State governor by some top Northern members.

Atiku polled 371 votes, while Wike scored 237 votes, to come second at the PDP national convention held at MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

Earlier in his interaction with members of the committee, PDP national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, charged the Damagum-led committee to come up with an acceptable running mate.

Ayu said Atiku urged the party leadership to help him in picking a suitable running mate.

He said, “The presidential candidate of our party would have been here but this morning he suddenly dashed somewhere. He apologised and if he comes early, he will join us but we will go ahead with the assignment he has given us.

“The candidate wrote to us as the administrative arm of the party on the choice of his running mate. Various organs of the party are well represented in his committee, National Working Committee (NWC), governors’ forum and National Assembly.

“I wish you a successful deliberation and I hope you come up with a conclusion between tomorrow and Friday”.

Ayu commended Atiku’s decision to carry everybody along unlike in 2019 when he didn’t consult widely in his choice of running mate.

Members of the committee who attended the meeting include former president of the Senate President, David Mark; House minority leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu; Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom; Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal; and Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed.

Others include former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu; former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido; former Cross Rivers State governor, Liyel Imoke; former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko; Senator Philip Aduda; PDP national secretary, Sam Anyanwu, and national organising secretary, Hon Umar Bature.

garfield1:
I agree 80% except with few changes.apc has a slight advantage in guber polls in bauchi and tinubu will win bauchi.bauchi is a state that vote massively for apc,atiku can't win such states.they can't just flip.gombe is even more likely to go to pdp...
Apc will have a bigger margin in katsina, at least 500k.its biggest margin in the north will come from there or borno...in Benue,rev alia of apc is already governor in waiting...pdp will likely win plateau guber
Tinubu winning margin will be narrow in ekiti and ondo...tinubu will have at least 35% in crs and 30% in aks and 25% in rivers.he will lose ebonyi narrowly,get at lest 10% in anambra and Enugu and get 25% in IMO.as tinubu will perform worse than buhsri in the north,he will perform better thsn buhari in ss/se.gov hope won't remain aloof during the presidential polls,his reelection will depend on apc retaining aso villa... I agree in other areas.overall,top class prediction

Kyase:
If e respond make I know

famouscargo4u:
I am a Christian. It is very wrong if the priest to deny worshippers because of PVC. Can he defend it before God? All he needed to do was to keep encouraging them to get it.